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Katy Faces First De-annexation Challenge Under New Texas Law
A landowner wants to de-annex 80 acres from Katy’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Proposed Rules Would Expand Democrat Power-sharing in Texas House
Rules set to be voted on would give all vice-chairmanships to Democrats and expand their power.

Texans Applaud Trump Ban on ‘Gender Ideology Extremism’
President Trump’s executive order defends women’s rights and restores “biological truth” to the federal government.

Texas House and Senate Budget Proposals Differ on Tax Relief, Education Funding
Although the two budget proposals are mostly at parity, including on school choice, they differ in how tax relief and broader education funding are allocated.
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House Fails to Protect ESF… Again
To no one’s surprise, the Texas House choose easier spending over common sense protections for the state’s Economic Stabilization Fund. When given an opportunity to put a “floor” for the ESF into the transportation funding bill debated yesterday, 20 moderate...
Transparency Committee Goes Behind Closed Doors
In the coming weeks, the Texas House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations will be meeting in a closed-door session to begin their witch-hunt impeachment against a university regent accused of… seeking greater transparency. And, quite possibly,...
Sense Prevails in Northside ISD
Remember this, the microchip I.D. program being tested in Northside ISD in San Antonio? A quick refresher from the November 2012 AP story: Starting [Fall 2012], the fourth-largest school district in Texas is experimenting with "locator" chips in student ID badges on...
Protecting the ESF Needs ‘Special’ Attention
During the regular session of 83rd Texas Legislature (and very prominently, during the debate over Senate Joint Resolution 2 in the first called session), the issue of how large of a balance the State should maintain in the Economic Stabilization Fund took...
House Set to Take Step Back With Transportation Funding
Today the House will take up House Joint Resolution 2 and its enabling legislation, House Bill 16. These bills relate to the Governor’s call for the Legislature to identify funding sources for transportation infrastructure projects. This particular package of bills...
Moronic: Texas transportation funding plan
There is an issue being debated in second called session of the 83rd Texas Legislature that will affect us in the pocketbook and politically for our foreseeable future. It has to do with a terrible way of funding spending growth for state transportation projects. Joe...
The Actual War on Women in Texas
Hey, did you know there's a war on women being waged in Texas? The media says so, leftists in orange shirts say so, the Democrat Twitterati say so. Must be true. In the last several weeks, a woman has taken up her pink shoes and declared that she speaks for all...
Texas GOP senators surrender Step by Ugly Step
At the end of the first called session of the 83rd Texas Legislature, Texas Democrats demonstrated Tuesday night and Wednesday morning what those of us who are not burdened with self-enforced ignorance have always known about the Left: The Rule of Law and all other...
Living the Good Life on Taxpayers’ Dime
Wednesday, state district court Judge John Dietz announced a new six-week school finance trial that will begin in January of 2014. As this trial drags on, and Texas school districts continually screech that they are in desperate need of more funding, one district is...